The Temple of Fear

The Temple of Fear.

Timidity's sacred temple was erected.
The inner child bewildered hiding her hurt
Behind stone walls...
Sandstone and sandalwood incense
Built on quicksand sinking
Inwards...succumbing
On the brink of the precipice
Of chances not taken
Swinging out through
Trapdoor of eternity.

Life's peaks....shunned
Ferociously
Fear breeds ferocity
Downwards dizzying fall
Eyes shut...blinking
Comatose shrieking
In morse code
Someone help
Save our soul...

Temerity's temple on the quagmire leaching... see sawing on the sandbanks of surrender
Little girl has locked herself in
Knows the keys
Are not beyond her reach.

The shelf of disaster. ..
Must be stood upon
To reach the skylight
Of hope.
Sweet escape beckons
Still in darkness
She gropes

There's no easy way out
Of this
Temple of Timidity.

Temerity smiles...shrugging her shoulders.
She is deity of deities
In the dark sanctum sanctorum
Of the temple.

Still digging in her heels
Dreaming of worm holes and
underground escape routes
She claws in the dirt...
And hopes.

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